I fear that much of our prayer is lost because we do not sufficiently throw our hearts into it. It is possible for us to attend the meeting and all the while be thinking of the home, the infant in the cradle, or the shop, the field, the farm, the factory, the counting-house, the and I know not what beside. Is it any wonder then that prayer halts? The brother who prays may be burning with earnest desire, but his prayer lags because we are not backing it with silent Devour and passionate longing for God’s blessing. Oh! Brethren and sisters, we have often spoiled our prayer meetings thus.
C.H. Spurgeon

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WINDOWS TOWARD JERUSALEM

"His windows being open and his chamber toward Jerusalem."—Dan. vi: 10. The scoundrelly princes of Persia, urged on by political jealousy against Daniel, have succeeded in getting a law passed…

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THE LORD’S RAZOR

"In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the King of Assyria."—Isaiah vii: 20. The Bible is…

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VICARIOUS SUFFERING

"Without shedding of blood is no remission."— Heb. ix: 22. John G. Whittier, the last of the great school of American poets that made the last quarter of a century…

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THE QUEEN’S VISIT

"Behold, the half was not told me."— I Kings x: 7. Solomon had resolved that Jerusalem should be the center of all sacred, regal, and commercial magnificence. He set himself…

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BRAWN AND MUSCLE

how often it is that men with physical strength do not serve Christ! They are like a ship full manned and full rigged, capable of vast tonnage, able to endure…

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040415-N-6419K-011 Iraq (Apr. 15, 2004) - U.S. Navy Chaplain, Lt. Cmdr. Lulrick Balzora, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Fourteen (NMCB-14), prepares to baptize Construction Mechanic Kyle Ellis. Balzora baptized several members assigned to NMCB-14 and NMCB-74 using a 2.5 cubic yard front-end loader bucket as an improvised baptismal. NMCB-14 and NMCB-74 are currently deployed in Iraq supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). U.S. Navy photo by Builder 2nd Class Jerome Kirkland (RELEASED)

The Conversion of Peter Cartwright

From his, Autobiography of Peter Cartwright: The Backwoods Preacher, published in 1857, Peter Cartwright described his conversion in his own words: In 1801, when I was in my sixteenth year,…

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